Comments on: 6 questions with LinkedIn co-founder Konstantin Guericke

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:54:23 +0000

meanwhile 3 years later: this post is still helpful… between this and another post, I went through my connections and deleted 27 people. Some of them I knew personally which was why I took them off, still others I had never met and felt honored they asked me and I accepted, not knowing the spam that was coming with daily status updates with links to random nonsense.

Thanks Penelope, for motivating me to take out the trash.

By: matchmaker

matchmaker — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:52:57 +0000

I baked this last night and it came out delicious. I didn’t have buttermilk, so I used regular milk but it still came out cake-y and moist. I think it’s a bit better with the powdered sugar as it seems to offset the tartness of the fruit.

By: Dan Eustace

Dan Eustace — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:58:00 +0000

Hi Penelope,

Really liked the interview with the founder of LinkedIn and expecially the responses. It is so good, I am writing about it….

Now I don't know how this works. I place the blog URL into the line above to point to the reference listing.

Eye-opening…
Dan

By: Patricia

Patricia — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:21:39 +0000

I've just started to use LinkedIn and it seems to be pretty good. I've reconnected with people that I've met at conferences and had as instructors. It also seems to be useful for researching career development, see what skills sets are currently most important. I use this information to help me plan what educational courses to take and to decide what volunteer side projects will be useful for my career.

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Patricia, you make a great point about how you can use LinkedIn to see how other people got to where they are. Seeing other peoples' paths to places you want to go is very instructive in planning your own routes.

–Penelope

By: Daniel R. Sweet

Daniel R. Sweet — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:56:25 +0000

There is always a little play between the whole quantity of contacts on LinkedIn and their quality.

I am what is known as a "SuperConnector". That is, I have nearly 3,000 connections with people from all over the world in all areas of business and life.

For the record, I haven't sent an invitation (except at the reuqest of someone else) in the last 6 months or more. Once you get to a certain number of connections, and let people know that you're open to more, the invitations come to you.

The idea for me is that I want to "dig the well before I need it", so I connect to a lot of people. With around 8 million users, most people with

By: penelope

penelope — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:21:20 +0000

I know what you mean, Heather. The best part for me, about the interview, was understanding that all I need is 30 close connections. Makes everything seem more manageable.

By: Heather Mundell

Heather Mundell — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:45:17 +0000

Thanks for doing this interview!

It helps me with an issue I have with LinkedIn, and that's when super-connected people whom I have never met and never heard of invite me to connect. In some cases I've accepted and then wondered why, because I never contact them. Why would I contact them when they already have 800 people they're connected to? Or I have said more politely than this, "No thanks – I don't know you, so how can you possibly know that you want to connect with me and vice versa?"

So now I'll look at upping my quantity a bit while keeping the quality too.